how would you go about arguing the greatness of Madonna's 'American Pie'? here's how i argue the badness:
Madonna doing low notes = dodgy. she sings the song low whereas Maclean was doing it lighter and maybe faster/not so tied to plodding 4/4. she's unable to put any life into it tho, it's merely a recital and a dull one at that. that combined with the production (Orbit-by-numbers, tepid and not dynamic or epic) makes no good.
the other reason i hate it is because it seems like a real failure of imagination for her (and Orbit). never understood the point of her doing it. to align herself with certain ideas about America, music and the relationship between the two? i prefer her to look forward not back (the disco-revivalism stuff of COAD sounds modern and still relevant thanks to Price) so saw this as a real waste of time and relatively lazy way to notch up another #1 (in the same way an X-Factor winner might). she's far better than that so what gives?
the COAD tour show on Channel 4 looked so great tho! i saw most of it but i'm guessing she did not perform 'American Pie'.
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Re: Points of order
Date: 2006-11-28 01:23 pm (UTC)Madonna doing low notes = dodgy. she sings the song low whereas Maclean was doing it lighter and maybe faster/not so tied to plodding 4/4. she's unable to put any life into it tho, it's merely a recital and a dull one at that. that combined with the production (Orbit-by-numbers, tepid and not dynamic or epic) makes no good.
the other reason i hate it is because it seems like a real failure of imagination for her (and Orbit). never understood the point of her doing it. to align herself with certain ideas about America, music and the relationship between the two? i prefer her to look forward not back (the disco-revivalism stuff of COAD sounds modern and still relevant thanks to Price) so saw this as a real waste of time and relatively lazy way to notch up another #1 (in the same way an X-Factor winner might). she's far better than that so what gives?
the COAD tour show on Channel 4 looked so great tho! i saw most of it but i'm guessing she did not perform 'American Pie'.